This is an analysis of the poem Die Heimkehr that begins with:

Zu Paris am Königsschlosse,
Das der Prinz nunmehr bezogen,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX bXXX XXXX cXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX bXXa XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110 11110100 111011 1111010 111001 1110010 11011010 1111111000 10100100 1110101 1101110 111010 111111 11111010 0101100 11100 1110100 111000 1111110 1110010 110100 1111000 111100001 1111100 11001110 1010110 1011111 111110 1111110 1110110 10001111 111100100 011101 1011001 1111100 11110000 1000011 111111111010 111111110 10011010 10101010 10101100 111111 11101110 1101110 10101010 11111 11101100 110101 10101111 11101010 0110101 111110 1111100 10101110 10111100 111111110 111111111010 110111 1111000 1011010 1010111100 111100110 1011010 1111010 11100100 1110101 10011000 1110110 1011111100 1011111110 10110110 1010110 1110101 11111010 1011110 11001010 11101010 1101011 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 81
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er is repeated.

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  • summary of Die Heimkehr;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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